Based in California and founded by Sameer Parekh,
C2Net began marketing privacy protection services for ISP subscribers
in 1994. Expanding on this vision, the company went on to recruit
highly skilled encryption and security programmers to produce an
entire line of Internet data security products. Developing the
software outside the US, these products were available world-wide.

To ensure C2Net's position as a global leader in providing full
strength cryptography products, C2Net Europe Ltd was founded in
November 1997 to head up world-wide product development and promote
C2Net's product line outside the USA. To do this C2Net bought some
technology and employees from UK
Web, a small company based in England. Mark J. Cox was Managing
Director of C2Net Europe Ltd. Paul Sutton was Technical Director.

C2Net's flagship product was the Stronghold Secure Web Server, an
SSL server for Unix with full-strength, 128-bit
encryption. SafePassage Secure Tunnel was developed to secure TCP/IP
transmissions and before changes in US export laws made 128-bit
browsers globally available, C2Net gained a reputation for its
SafePassage Web Proxy. Major banks and international corporations used
this client-side software to add full strength encryption to 40-bit
export crippled browsers.

C2Net believed in making the best
even better. Taking the world's favourite Web server, Apache, C2Net
developers added features and functionality to make Stronghold Web
Server the unbeatable option for commercial applications. A commitment
to providing the best technical support available together with
customer focused product development put C2Net at the cutting edge of
e-business security software providers.

The people behind C2Net
were heavily involved in Apache, and part of company philosophy was to
support open-source projects. Since 1995, C2Net employed core Apache,
OpenSSL, SSLeay and mod_ssl developers some of whom had contributed to
Apache since version 0.5. In addition to providing development
resources, C2Net organised the first ever Apache developers'
conference, ApacheCon '98, and published a weekly online journal for
Apache users. Now in its sixth year, Apache Week has over 11,000
subscribers to the e-mail version and is still going strong. Proud to
be involved with the Apache project since the beginning, part of
C2Net's long-term commitment to openly available software was an
ongoing contribution of time and developer resources.

C2Net's
first secure web server was launched on December 20 1995. This initial
version, released exclusively for the US market, was known as
"Apache-SSL-Commerce". In 1996, the first product released
for global markets was an all-new commercial version of Apache with
added security. From then on, the server was branded as Stronghold
Web Server. Stronghold Web Server soon became the leading SSL Web
Server for Unix platforms. Within 2 months of international release,
the Netcraft server survey showed an increase of 500% in Stronghold
Web Server installations and for a number of years was consistently
been rated the number one choice. Stronghold Web Server can claim
many firsts including support for hardware acceleration, support for
client certificates (Digital IDs), HTTP/1.1 support, TLS v1.0 support,
and was also the first Apache-based server to support Verisign's
Global Server IDs.

By 2000, C2Net had built a world-class
management team comprising:

Bill Rowzee. President &
CEO. With over 15 years experience as CEO and CFO of a major
technology company.

Sameer Parekh. Named one of the "50
People Who Matter Most on the Internet" by Newsweek magazine